Smashing Magazine

JUNE 20, 2019

Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. Optimizing Google Fonts Performance. It’s fair to say Google Fonts are popular. Without Google Fonts you would be limited to the handful of “ system fonts ” installed on your user’s device. Like all good things, Google Fonts do come with a cost. Danny Cooper. How can that be?

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Google Performance Cache Website 111

Scalegrid

JUNE 11, 2019

Popular examples of commercial databases include Oracle, SQL Server, and DB2. What is shocking in this report is the large gap between Oracle and 2nd place Microsoft SQL Server , as it maintains a much smaller gap according to DB-Engines. Public cloud is a cloud computing model where IT services are delivered across the internet.

Open Source 55

Open Source Database Cloud Infrastructure 55

High Scalability

JULY 20, 2018

It also works well to justify an acquisition of more servers to investors. Don't miss all that the Internet has to say on Scalability, click below and become eventually consistent with all scalability knowledge (which means this post has many more items to read so please keep on reading). Some say MRAM will never work in automotive.

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Internet Internet Scalability Automotive 121

High Scalability

JUNE 22, 2018

Charlie Demerjian : what does Intel have planned for their server roadmap? For the same reason the 14/10nm messaging is causing consternation among investors, but the server side is in much worse shape. Why is it causing such consternation among OEMs, ODMs, and major customers? How bad is it? There are more quotes, more everything.

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Internet Internet Scalability Artificial Intelligence 113

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this example, “Reverse proxy” and “Front-end server” are clearly in the critical path. According to Google’s SRE handbook , best practices, there are “ Four Golden Signals ” we can convert into four SLOs for services: reliability, latency, availability, and saturation. Without them, the application won’t work.

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Software Software Benchmarking Latency 306

CSS Wizardry

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Reduce Transfer Size Broadly simplified… Web servers don’t send whole files at once—they chunk them into packets and send those. permitted the opening of multiple simultaneous connections to a server at once. It can also provide genuine seamless connection migration as devices traverse the internet. To mitigate this, HTTP/1.1

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Latency Cache Transportation Mobile 234

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

The service workers enable the offline usage of the PWA by fetching cached data or informing the user about the absence of an Internet connection. The service workers also retrieve the latest data once the server connection is restored. The following qualities are considered great additions to the basic PWA by Google developers.

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Cache Internet Internet Google 136

Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

It was heralded as an amazing performance revolution, with exciting new features such as server push, parallel streams, and prioritization. We would have been able to stop bundling resources, stop sharding our resources across multiple servers, and heavily streamline the page-loading process. Did You Know?

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Transportation Internet Internet Network 145

The Morning Paper

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

AnyLog: a grand unification of the Internet of Things , Abadi et al., Note that AnyLog also differs from projects such as DeepDive or Google’s Knowledge Graph. Despite the "Internet of Things" featuring prominently in the title, there’s nothing particular to IoT in the technical solution at all.

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Blockchain Internet Internet IoT 94

Jos

JUNE 2, 2018

Google’s Lighthouse is one of them, which shows information about PWA, SEO and more. presented in Google IO 2018 ( source ) These tools make it easier to determine where we need to put emphasis to improve our sites. Also, the speed of my internet connection is humongous and I’m close to data centres located in Stockholm and London.

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Performance Speed Google Media 237

Smashing Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Last year, Google started emphasizing the importance of Core Web Vitals and how they reflect a person’s real experience when visiting sites around the web. Our fast computers and fiber internet masked the experience real people have on our site. This is a screenshot from our mobile Core Web Vitals report in Google Search Console.

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Google Analytics Serverless Metrics 111

MachMetrics

DECEMBER 14, 2019

How fast is the average time to first byte (server delay)? In 2017, mobile internet usage passed desktop as the majority. Unfortunately, the data from Backlinko paints a bleak picture when it comes to mobile internet browsing. Google’s best practice is to have a speed index under 3 seconds. seconds on desktop and 2.5

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Best Practices Speed Mobile Google 105

KeyCDN

JANUARY 14, 2021

Responsive Design - Any site that you develop should render properly across all devices, as more and more people access the internet via mobile devices. What makes React unique is that it can be rendered either server or client side. Originally created as an early fork of Angular by engineers at Google, Vue.js

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Google Mobile Open Source Website 135

Brendan Gregg

JULY 4, 2021

I summarized these topics and more as a plenary conference talk, including my own predictions (as a senior performance engineer) for the future of computing performance, with a focus on back-end servers. This was a chance to talk about other things I've been working on, such as the present and future of hardware performance.

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Performance Latency Hardware Storage 121

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Why do we need Lighthouse at all when Google also offers similar reports in PageSpeed Insights (PSI)? CrUX data is important because it is how web core vitals are measured, which, in turn, are a ranking factor for Google’s search results. Still, there’s nothing in there to tell us about the data Lighthouse is using to evaluate metrics.

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Speed Google Website Metrics 117

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

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Website Internet Internet Performance 97

Dynatrace

AUGUST 24, 2020

Windows: Windows Server 1809. Linux: Google Container-Optimized OS 73 LTS. Fixed an issue in the jquery module on old Internet Explorers, where accessing a property on the ActiveXObject would throw an exception (ONE-44455). Last compatible OneAgent version: 1.205. x86 (64bit-only). Vendor announcement. x86 (64bit-only).

Java 150

Java Operating System Infrastructure Metrics 150

O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Suddenly, the user interface was made up of human-readable documents, shown in a browser with links that could in turn call programs on remote servers. Big data, web services, and cloud computing established a kind of internet operating system. The web was another end of programming. No code became a buzzword.

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Programming Google Infrastructure Internet 145

O'Reilly

JUNE 18, 2024

Last month, TheNew York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues places them in dispute.

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Social Media Media Open Source Traffic 145

CSS - Tricks

MARCH 16, 2020

to run Google Lighthouse audits via the command line, save the reports they generate in JSON format and then compare them so web performance can be monitored as the website grows and develops. I’m hopeful this can serve as a good introduction for any developer interested in learning about how to work with Google Lighthouse programmatically.

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Google Latency Website Metrics 86

Dotcom-Montior

MARCH 27, 2022

The Great Firewall of China, or as it’s officially called, the Golden Shield Project, is an internet censorship project to block people from accessing specific foreign websites. It is the world’s most advanced and extensive Internet censorship program. The How and What of The Great Firewall of China. DNS Poisoning/Spoofing.

Website 82

Website Internet Internet Performance 82

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2021

LCP, or Largest Contentful Paint , is one of the three Core Web Vitals that you must “pass” to get the full search ranking boost from Google as part of their Page Experience Update. From an SEO perspective, it doesn’t really matter what other tools tell you, GSC is what Google Search sees. The issue was that LCP was too slow on mobile.

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Google Traffic Mobile Website 144

KeyCDN

MARCH 14, 2019

It can be used to decouple your frontend from your backend and improve server efficiency. Serverless Applications Managing your own server is so 2018. Major cloud providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all support serverless services. Google and Microsoft both plan to invest large sums in VR and AR in 2019.

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Development Blockchain Serverless Social Media 101

Smashing Magazine

JULY 29, 2019

Last time, I navigated the web for a day using Internet Explorer 8. I downloaded TripMode ; an application for Mac which gives you control over which apps on your Mac can access the internet. Any other application’s internet access is automatically blocked. Google Homepage — DOM. I enabled Chrome. Large preview ).

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Cache Mobile Google Network 99

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2019

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Website Performance Website Energy Performance 78

MachMetrics

JUNE 16, 2020

Google made SSL use a ranking factor way back in 2014, and since Chrome 68, a “Not Secure” warning appears next to the URL of sites that aren’t using HTTPS. Source: Google Blog. These are typically implemented automatically by the hosting company servers. To be completely honest, you almost have to use it.

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Speed Latency Google Website 86

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

My personal opinion is that I don't see a widespread need for more capacity given horizontal scaling and servers that can already exceed 1 Tbyte of DRAM; bandwidth is also helpful, but I'd be concerned about the increased latency for adding a hop to more memory.

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Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

Smashing Magazine

APRIL 29, 2022

The average user doesn’t spend much time waiting for a web page to load or to interact with the page: According to Google, if a page’s load time goes up from 1 second to 3 seconds, the probability of the user bouncing increases by 32%. Consider Google Analytics, which collects and sends tracking data using navigator.sendBeacon().

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Website Google Open Source Mobile 98

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Spend enough time running websites through PageSpeed Insights and you’ll notice that Google has a major beef with traditional image formats like JPG, PNG and even GIF. Here’s what Google suggests: PageSpeed Insights demonstrates how much storage and bandwidth websites stand to save with WebP. Source: Google ) ( Large preview ).

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Website Speed Cache Google 75

MachMetrics

JUNE 30, 2021

With the latest introduction of the Core Web Vital section on GSC + upcoming Google’s core web vital update, site owners are forced to take note of their website speed and web vitals. Importance of page loading speed – Google checks your website load time and they like it as fast with a better user experience.

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Cache Speed Google Website 78

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 25, 2020

These certificates are then activated on the company’s website which ensures that a secure connection is always set up between the web browser and the web server. SSL certificates maintain the security of data between servers. Increase the Google rankings of your web pages. What are SSL Certificates Used For?

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Monitoring Website Internet Internet 77

All Things Distributed

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

In a follow up to the last blog post I have removed the last two dependencies this blog had on running a server somewhere: comments are now served by Disqus and search is now handled by Bing. It imported the commented from my Moveable Type server without a hitch. No Server Required - Jekyll & Amazon S3. Expanding the Cloud â??

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AWS Storage Big Data Servers 67

Percona

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Google Bard vs. MongoDB and MySQL challenge This was my first test of Bard ever, and I had pretty high expectations due to the fact that it can reach the online information, as opposed to ChatGPT, which operates on limited data. Me : OK, so if I want to downgrade my MongoDB standalone server from version 7.0 Server: Stop the MongoDB 7.0

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Database Artificial Intelligence Servers Operating System 107

KeyCDN

OCTOBER 3, 2019

After HTTP/2, coming up next is QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections). Google has been working for quite some time to speed up its network protocols in order to minimize website response times. Google is hopeful that QUIC can reduce connection costs towards zero RTTs. Google plans to propose QUIC as an IETF standard.

Transportation 51

Transportation Internet Internet Google 51

Dotcom-Montior

AUGUST 5, 2020

As if website speed wasn’t enough, Google has recently announced that user metrics will become a core ranking factor by 2021. The Dotcom-Monitor platform also offers solutions to monitor your Internet Infrastructure, such web servers and DNS servers. A slow DNS resolution can translate to slow web page performance.

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Website Speed Cache Traffic 92

Percona

APRIL 26, 2023

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Consider all the projects in Google’s graveyard, like Google Reader, Stadia, G+, and too many messaging apps to even try to recount.

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Open Source Software Software Social Media 103

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

HTTP(s) Headers are key-value pairs that can be used by the client or server to pass additional information along with an HTTP(s) request or response. It was very important to load the page in iframe , I was wandering around the internet to find a way to load it. But first, let’s start at the beginning. What Are HTTP(s) Headers?

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Testing Network Website Google 117